tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53387849754933987912024-03-13T03:33:06.602-07:00Endeavoring Catholic PerfectionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger270125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-8604674491954543082014-12-16T13:46:00.001-08:002014-12-16T13:46:44.741-08:00Rosary Novena <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.1999998092651px; line-height: 16.7999992370605px;">Download this book </span><a class="qlink qtext_editor_link_text" data-link-delete="https://archive.org/details/HistoryNovenasAndPrayersOfOurLadyOfTheRosaryOfPompeii" data-link-text="History, Novenas And Prayers Of Our Lady Of The Rosary Of Pompeii : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive" href="https://archive.org/details/HistoryNovenasAndPrayersOfOurLadyOfTheRosaryOfPompeii" id="qlink_hlnkhr4xej" npdkey="i3rr4yzt0.agszbggclgd86w29" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #2b6dad; font-family: Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.1999998092651px; line-height: 16.7999992370605px; text-decoration: none;">History, Novenas And Prayers Of Our Lady Of The Rosary Of Pompeii : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive</a><br />
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On page 37 of the book, (or 40 on PDF) it says: <span npdkey="i3rrdufq0.h61sc3w4cth85mi">« </span><i npdkey="i3rrdufq0.bsuhf2rc9lxiggb9">Whenever thou wishest to obtain favours from me</i><span npdkey="i3rrdufq0.3t3rpee93jlzbyb9"> », said Mary to lady Fortunatina Agrelli, « make the Novena of impetration once, twice, nay three times, and at the same time recite my Rosary; if the grace be granted to thee, make likewise three Novenas of thanksgiving. » Sir Agrelli's daughter accordingly made three novenas in succession and was miraculously cured.</span></div>
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On page 38-39 it says: During the novena, <i>if possible, </i>you should say every day your beads, for, our Lady promised to saint Dominic that she will bestow a special favour on all those who recite her entire rosary. You need not say the whole rosary at once: the fifteen decades may be recited at different times, either at tome or out of doors, in bed or al Work, all at your own good treasure; but it is essential to meditate on the mysteries while saying the beads.</div>
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This is known as the 54 days Rosary Novena in modern times, but the prayers of the novena of impetration and novena of thanksgiving is forgotten. And the original words of Our Lady was that the additional three novenas of thanksgiving is to be made if the grace is granted. But nowadays people say that one should pray the Novena regardless of whether the grace was granted or not. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: serif; font-size: large;">He endeavoured to procure copies of all the songs that went about the town, and <b>set other and devout words to them</b>, composed either by himself or some of the Oratorian fathers; and with the object of banishing all profane or immodest songs, not only from Naples, but also from the whole of Italy, he published a book of hymns set to music, called "the Temple of Harmony," and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin. On the frontispiece was the Madonna and Juvenal kneeling before her, offering her some books with the words: "<i>Dignare me laudare te, Virgo sacrata."</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One was that of the renowned singer, Donna Giovanna Sancia, whose voice and singing were so perfect that she commonly went by the name of "The Siren." She was the occasion of the greatest danger to the youth of the city, who could not withstand her charms; but when Juvenal took occasion to speak to her of Heaven and the beauty of virtue, the light of the Holy Ghost penetrated her heart, she beheld the miserable state of her soul, and, to the great edification of the city, she changed her ways, made a sincere confession of her whole life to Juvenal, and, in order to render her purpose of amendment ininviolable,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> she pronounced a solemn vow never again to sing a <span class="gstxt_hlt" style="font-family: inherit;">profane song, </span>but only moral or sacred ones.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">"I, Giovannella Sancia, declare and promise to God that never again will I utter or sing any Spanish or Italian vain, impure, or <span class="gstxt_hlt" style="background-color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">profane song; </span>but only psalms, hymns, motets, or devout spiritual canticles, to praise the Supreme Majesty of God our Lord, the Glorious Virgin, and the angels and saints of the Heavenly Paradise. Amen, so be it.</span></div>
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<br /></p> <p class="p1">FIRST POINT. Penance is necessary for all sorts of men.</p> <p class="p1">SECOND POINT. What the Fruits of that Penance ought to be.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">FIRST POINT.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">Consider that mortification and penance is the only way to heaven; Jesus Christ showed us no other way; and the saints who from their infancy were confirmed in grace, knew no other. 'Tis an error to imagine that penance is necessary only for great sinners, and no less an error to think that mortification is the virtue only of the perfect; if we be sinners we must do penance to endeavor to appease the wrath of God, and to obtain mercy and pardon; if we are so happy as not to have lost our innocence, penance is necessary for us to preserve that precious treasure; we have sinned, we may sin again, two powerful motives to do penance.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">Since we all confess that men sin more frequently in the world, and that they are more exposed to the danger of offending God than in a cloister, can we reasonably believe that penance belongs only to monasteries, and that none but religious are obliged to mortifications? Do we consider that many of those religious whom we think indispensably obliged to do penance, never lost their innocence; & shall we who own ourselves guilty of many sins, and who are in danger of committing more every moment, shall we think to persuade ourselves that mortification and penance do not belong to us?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">If we had nothing but our own passions to overcome could we reasonably hope to conquer them without the exercise of penance? and who can reasonably hope to be saved without subduing his passions?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">It is an article of faith that none enter into heaven but those who do violence to themselves; and yet we pretend to enter there without mortification. The life of man upon the earth is a perpetual warfare, for <i>S. Paul</i> tells us that the <i>desires of the flesh are contrary to the desires of the spirit, and the desires of the spirit are contrary to those of the flesh</i>; how then can we hope to be victorious without the practice of penance?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">We please our sensual appetites in everything, we are careful of our bodies even to excess, we follow blindly our natural inclinations, and in this condition we live without fear in the midst of the world where we are exposed to the greatest dangers. Certainly either we are of a different nature from the rest of mankind, or the devil stands in awe of us and respects us, or we are confirmed in grace, or else we are in danger (which is much more probable) to die in our sins: does heaven cost the most fervent and generous souls so much, and can we expect that the lazy and imperfect should gain it with less pains?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">Saint Paul chastised his body, he joined a continual penance to the cruel persecutions he suffered, for fear of being perverted himself while he converted others: And shall men who dare not pretend to be anything near as perfect as S. Paul, imagine that they have no need to practice mortification?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">Were the saints more frail than we? Did they expect another recompense? Did they follow another guide? or serve another master? Their lives were a continual mortification, are ours like them? And can we call ourselves the disciples of Christ while we neglect to do penance? Our Savior says, if any man will come after me let him deny himself and bear his cross daily.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">True mortification is inseparable from true piety, not only because no virtue can subsist long without a constant an generous mortification, but also because no virtue is real that is not attended with it.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">We have great reason to distrust our exercises of piety, our good works; everything is to be suspected in those whose passions are strong, & who are unmortified. </p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">It does not seem that we are afraid of the difficulty, we dislike the motive, for what do we not suffer in the service of the world? Alas! if God required of his servants, all that the world exacts of those who serve it, I am afraid he would have but few servants.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">How do we constrain ourselves everyday to please those whom our interest requires us to manage? what mortification so severe and so continual as a courtiers, a merchant's intent upon his trade, a soldier's, or a scholar's? Yet they are not discouraged, they seem satisfied amidst all their sufferings; but when God calls upon us to constrain ourselves a little, everything is uneasy, we find his yoke heavy, virtue frights us, we are disgusted, and the sole thought of mortification makes us lose courage.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">But oh! we shall have other thoughts on a death bed; when the image of Jesus-Christ crucified is presented to us, will not the sight of it have a quite contrary effect? It will upbraid our delicacy and increase our regret for having lead so lazy, so sensual a life, for having neglected penance and mortification.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">They present a crucifix to the dying, but my God! do all the dying find much comfort in contemplating a crucifix at their death? is it possible, my dear Jesus that the mortification which thou hast rendered so easy, should seem hard and insupportable only when we are to practice it in conformity to thy example, and for love of thee?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">Oh! my God! what should I do, if thou hadst required of thy servants, if I were bound to do and suffer as much for salvation, as I do and suffer to ruin myself, thou requires less than the world does, less than I do and suffer in its service, and shall I refuse to do and suffer what is absolutely necessary for salvation, what I have deserved by my offenses, and what all the blessed spirits in heaven have done and suffered that they might imitate thee?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1"><i>God forbid that I should glory in anything but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified to me, and I unto the world.</i></p> <p class="p2"><i></i>
<br /></p> <p class="p1"><i>SECOND POINT.</i></p> <p class="p2"><i></i>
<br /></p> <p class="p1"><i>Consider </i>that by the fruits of penance is meant not only macerating our bodies, but chiefly the mortification of our passions, and the reformation of our lives; these are indeed the fruits which God expects from our contrition and penance; by these marks we may know whether we have made good use of the sacraments, and whether we be truly sorry for our sins, and faithful to the grace of God.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">The exercises of devotion, the frequentation of the sacraments, and the practice of good works are powerful means of perfection; but while we retain our former passions with these powerful means, while we are as proud, and impatient, as peevish, as envious, as difficult to be pleased, as choleric, as unmortified, as full of self-love as before, can we reasonably rely no these pretended exercises of piety?</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">Mortification of the body is an exercise of penance, but that penance must have its fruit, which consists in suppressing our passions, in regulating our inclinations, and in repairing the disorders of self-love.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">To what purpose do we confess so often, if in a whole years time we have not perhaps reformed any one of the faults that we confess? It is not enough for us to detest our sins, we must resolve to commit them no more, and how can that resolution be sincere if we do not likewise resolve to avoid the least occasion of sin? The execution of this resolution is properly the fruit of penance. In good earnest if we know the efficacy of this sacrament of penance only by the fruits we find of it in ourselves, should we have an high idea of it? It is much to be feared that our using ourselves by an unaccountable carelessness, and especially by want of contrition to reap no profit by the sacrament, will render our disease incurable.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">A religious life as a continual penance, but is there no danger of its being unfruitful? What a miserable thing would it be for a religious to have done penance so long without any fruit? And what fruit can an unmortified religious who is of a worldly spirit, lukewarm and careless receive from all his penance? He is very much in the wrong who bears the cross, and will not taste the fruits of it? He would not suffer more, nay he would suffer much less, for those fruits are full of true sweetness.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">It is certain that everybody has very much to suffer in this life; we shall meet with crosses everywhere, they who live most at their ease are not exempted: let us at least bear them patiently, let us unite our sufferings with the sufferings of Christ, this will not augment them, but it will make us reap fruit by them.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">Another fruit of penance is a constant practice of mortification: My God! what fruit may we not gather from this practice? Everything in the world may give us an opportunity to curb our inclinations, there is no place, no time improper for it without deviating from the rules of good sense. Let him who loves Jesus Christ truly make a good use of these little occasions; have we a great desire to see any object, or to speak in some particular occasion? we may reap great benefit by casting down our eyes and holding our thoughts. If we have an opportunity to gain applause by saying something very seasonably, or by some witty piece of rallery, we have also an opportunity of making a great sacrifice. There is scarce an hour where in some subject of mortification does not present itself are we sitting or standing, we may choose an uneasy seat, or a painful posture without seeming to affect it. In fine, the inconveniences of the place, of the season, the disagreeableness of the company, born so that we seem not to mind them, are indeed little occasions of mortification, but the mortification itself is not little, in these small occasions. It is very meritorious, and I may say that the greatest graces and the most sublime holiness commonly depend upon a generous constant mortification in these small matters. A punctual performance of the duties of our community, an exact observation of our rule, a conformity to the common way of living in everything, without any regard to our age, are precious fruits of a mortification so much the more considerable as it is less subject to vanity, and more conformed to the spirit of Christ.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">These are the true fruits of penance, what hinders our beating abundance of them? But there is another fruit of penance yet more necessary, and without which all the rest will avail us little for eternity; and that is the reformation of our manners, the victory over our domineering passion; let us observe what passion is most powerful, which habit is strongest, to what sin we are most subject, which is in some manner the source of all the rest, and of all the false maxims we frame to ourselves, in matter of conscience. All other sins may be strangers to us, but the domineering passion is our proper character, the fruit of a true conversion in to retrench our reigning vice, to conceive an holy destestation of that imperious passion, to fight against it without ceasing. The victory over this sin alone will deliver us from the strongest temptations: but we willingly attack our other sins and commonly spare this: and this is the true cause of our receiving so little benefit by our penance.</p> <p class="p2">
<br /></p> <p class="p1">My God! what do we stay for to become fruitful? thou hast cultivate us with so much care, we are planted in a ground watered with thy tears and precious blood; how long shall we be unfruitful? what do we get by bringing forth only thorns? we feel their points, but we receive no benefit by our pain, because we fly from the cross. I am resolved my dear Savior to neglect nothing that I may not live such a barren life: I can do nothing without thy grace, I can do all things with it, since thou gives me this time for penance, suffer me not to abuse it anymore; my God I am resolved to begin this moment to bring forth fruits worthy of penance.</p> <p class="p2">
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id="zw-127967a7331zYUkYiefd45">Stabat Mater</b><br /> </span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a73321pluEBefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7332S5dQ-Mefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7333VyPGOIefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7333EK0Rcuefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Stabat Mater dolorosa<br /> iuxta crucem lacrimosa,<br /> dum pendebat Filius.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7333ODQRTUefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7333WNFnXdefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7333L_5xJ3efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">The grieving Mother stood<br /> beside the cross weeping<br /> where her Son was hanging.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7334EKIwKRefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7334yjZa8Tefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7334rZf_lBefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7334g_xk29efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Cuius animam gementem<br /> contristatam et dolentem<br /> pertransivit gladius.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a733430Wa02efd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7335xTImxZefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7335IQxzCAefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Through her weeping soul,<br /> compassionate and grieving,<br /> a sword passed.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7335Olizxefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7335oSMWZvefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7336a9zKtefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7336_csrWzefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">O quam tristis et afflicta<br /> fuit illa benedicta<br /> mater Unigeniti!</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7336GvvCcIefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7336FRRm8Tefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7336tdWiZ4efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">O how sad and afflicted<br /> was that blessed<br /> Mother of the Only-begotten!</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7337HlPy9Aefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7337Vyzrszefd45"><p id="zw-127967a73376YCGXKefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7337ELrAy4efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Quae maerebat et dolebat<br /> pia mater cum videbat<br /> nati poenas incliti.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a73378R_LCIefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7338JlibvDefd45"><span id="zw-127967a73372PJFiefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Who mourned and grieved,<br /> the pious Mother, with seeing<br /> the torment of her glorious Son.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7338FLXfrHefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7338wutPQOefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7338x4ocbcefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7338F5dJfCefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Quis est homo qui non fleret,<br /> matrem Christi si videret<br /> in tanto supplicio?</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7339zumLfefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7339t_JeTfefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7339FnadVxefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Who is the man who would not weep<br /> if seeing the Mother of Christ<br /> in such agony?</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a73397ab4coefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7339HeW0-efd45"><p id="zw-127967a733ahEYE5vefd45"><span id="zw-127967a733a4o8bJqefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Quis non posset contristari,<br /> piam matrem contemplari<br /> dolentum cum Filio?</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a733a5QtLN1efd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a733auTUtgaefd45"><span id="zw-127967a733aUQE0z0efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Who would not be have compassion<br /> on beholding the devout mother<br /> suffering with her Son?</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a733brg05qJefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a733byJvG9efd45"><p id="zw-127967a733bGQ1XUmefd45"><span id="zw-127967a733bhXeSatefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Pro peccatis suae gentis<br /> vidit Iesum in tormentis<br /> et flagellis subditum.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a733bd98g3Gefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a733b1L9X22efd45"><span id="zw-127967a733bIUaDUefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">For the sins of His people<br /> she saw Jesus in torment<br /> and subjected to the scourge.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a733cqabu6wefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a733cXVW0qnefd45"><p id="zw-127967a733c2D4A9Hefd45"><span id="zw-127967a733c5jMC1sefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Vidit suum dulcem Natum<br /> morientem, desolatum,<br /> cum emisit spiritum.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a733cBujDp6efd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a733ddTB8W1efd45"><span id="zw-127967a733di_N4BTefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">She saw her sweet Son<br /> dying, forsaken,<br /> while He gave up His spirit.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a733fY1T8ybefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a733fTPp7eJefd45"><p id="zw-127967a733fu68enqefd45"><span id="zw-127967a733fAo16Frefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Eia Mater, fons amoris,<br /> me sentire vim doloris<br /> fac, ut tecum lugeam.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7340bKad3gefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7340Zn2194efd45"><span id="zw-127967a7340ZvlO3efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">O Mother, fountain of love,<br /> make me feel the power of sorrow,<br /> that I may grieve with you.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7340EvtLBEefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7340MBh-uRefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7341VJQFBYefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7341bFyeUefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Fac ut ardeat cor meum<br /> in amando Christum Deum<br /> ut sibi complaceam.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7341kcH0yEefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7341LMambxefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7341_crbjPefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Grant that my heart may burn<br /> in the love of the Lord Christ<br /> that I may greatly please Him.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7341NHK7WKefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7342aZQslefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7342A3iLCxefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7342H3jQUQefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Sancta mater, istud agas,<br /> Crucifixi fige plagas<br /> cordi meo valide.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7342Lz6P23efd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7342-qOXaUefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7342IpYAsefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Holy Mother, grant this of yours,<br /> that the wounds of the Crucified be well-formed<br /> in my heart.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7343vZ6SdCefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7343wJYyfmefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7343WrEhdLefd45"><span id="zw-127967a73430I-udxefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Tui Nati vulnerati<br /> tam dignati pro me pati<br /> poenas mecum divide.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a734357xjTPefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a73440N8nM6efd45"><span id="zw-127967a7343iSAWtQefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Grant that the punishment of your wounded Son,<br /> so worthily suffered for me,<br /> may be shared with me.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7344KGaiv3efd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7344R_DIXNefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7344LK740Mefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7344yl1R1efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Fac me tecum pie flere<br /> Crucifixo condolere,<br /> donec ego vixero.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7345tQwh2vefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7345FT0tr8efd45"><span id="zw-127967a7345Aubhqefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Let me sincerely weep with you,<br /> bemoan the Crucified,<br /> for as long as I live.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a7345k1js8efd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7345i4R98qefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7345lgXINPefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7345t8G7gHefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Iuxta crucem tecum stare<br /> ac me tibi sociare<br /> in planctu desidero.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7346DNetazefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7346cpNNTSefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7346-GPn69efd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">To stand beside the cross with you,<br /> and for me to join you<br /> in mourning, this I desire.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a73484nGoTefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a7348AEH4pHefd45"><p id="zw-127967a7349OZPOtpefd45"><span id="zw-127967a7349orERhKefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Virgo virginum praeclara,<br /> mihi iam non sis amara;<br /> fac me tecum plangere.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a7349Lw3Kpoefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a7349y4CdX-efd45"><span id="zw-127967a7349uGzdKXefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Chosen Virgin of virgins,<br /> to me, now, be not bitter;<br /> let me mourn with you.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a734aHmACjHefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a734arU77ecefd45"><p id="zw-127967a734aYtTHYNefd45"><span id="zw-127967a734a-Cvzwefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Fac ut portem Christi mortem,<br /> passionis fac me sortem<br /> et plagas recolere.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a734acnQoxkefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a734aimbTdVefd45"><span id="zw-127967a734aRacYnGefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Grant that I may bear the death of Christ,<br /> grant me the fate of His passion<br /> and the remembrance of His wounds.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a734bUMkrAefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a734bODQShIefd45"><p id="zw-127967a734bB7-Cz4efd45"><span id="zw-127967a734bwn6Bgbefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Fac me plagis vulnerari,<br /> cruce hac inebriari<br /> et cruore Filii.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a734bJiIDMQefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a734cvYspfefd45"><span id="zw-127967a734cJoL2jrefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Let me be wounded with distress,<br /> inebriated in this way by the cross<br /> and the blood of your Son.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a734c7czjGuefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a734cuTlIhsefd45"><p id="zw-127967a734cA-WoDqefd45"><span id="zw-127967a734cEYRgolefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Flammis urar ne succensus,<br /> per te, Virgo, sim defensus<br /> in die iudicii.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a734dsFhp-efd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a734dMSxICMefd45"><span id="zw-127967a734d8G3xSCefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Lest I be destroyed by fire, set alight,<br /> then through you, Virgin, may I be defended<br /> on the day of judgement.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a734dwriMoJefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a734dJf1p_Yefd45"><p id="zw-127967a734eJI1ddcefd45"><span id="zw-127967a734d2nm3Xefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Fac me cruce custodiri,<br /> morte Christi praemuniri,<br /> confoveri gratia.</span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a734encaIqefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127967a734eWJp87efd45"><span id="zw-127967a734ecnr0Ewefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Let me be guarded by the cross,<br /> fortified by the death of Christ,<br /> and cherished by grace.</span></p></td></tr><tr id="zw-127967a734extxHtefd45" valign="Top"><td id="zw-127967a734fljPTfkefd45"><p id="zw-1279683ecd7kuurbYefd45"><span id="zw-1279683ecd7GoejPSefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Quando corpus morietur,<br /> fac ut animae donetur<br /> paradisi gloria.</span></p><p id="zw-12796848851TsWIDlefd45"><span id="zw-1279684e919K6oDY3efd45"><br /></span></p><p id="zw-127968489f7RTNImyefd45"><span id="zw-12796848c6fZXczRpefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">Quando corpus morietur,<br /> fac ut animae donetur<br /> paradisi gloria. Amen.</span><span id="zw-12796848bddmjTpLfefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;"><br /></span></p></td><td id="zw-127967a734fOvywHRefd45" valign="Top"><p id="zw-127968415d7Jzj1Oefd45"><span id="zw-127968415d6-dOaePefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">When my body dies,<br /> grant that to my soul is given<br /> the glory of paradise.</span></p><p id="zw-1279684cb98DnmrLGefd45"><span id="zw-1279684e9194gws-efd45"><br /></span></p><p id="zw-1279684c0e7aeHTlJefd45"><span id="zw-1279684c0e7i5mXMEefd45" style="font-family:Times New Roman,Times,Serif;">When my body dies,<br /> grant that to my soul is given<br /> the glory of paradise. Amen.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size:100%;"><p><br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wiE6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA216&ci=161%2C1142%2C764%2C145&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=wiE6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA216&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2yrMuBvtCCEWKAF0cYovgGUD-l1g&ci=161%2C1142%2C764%2C145&edge=0" /></a><br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wiE6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA217&ci=124%2C159%2C727%2C1168&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=wiE6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA217&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U0bdYtx0QNwiEmmfBN3pjeUVgS7mg&ci=124%2C159%2C727%2C1168&edge=0" /></a><br /><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wiE6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA218&ci=152%2C147%2C733%2C572&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=wiE6AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA218&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1tfjHRkYNisWXUpbuSinZuFHzRGA&ci=152%2C147%2C733%2C572&edge=0" /></a></p></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-74505266792556083842010-03-13T20:42:00.000-08:002010-03-13T20:43:34.944-08:00worldly amusements captivate the senses for the time being<p zid="76">This is the beautiful freedom of the sons of God, and it is worth vastly more than all the rank and distinction of blood and birth, more than all the kingdoms in the world. This is the abiding peace which, in the experience of the saints, "surpasseth all understanding. <span zid="217" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);">It surpasses all pleasures rising from gratification of the senses, from social gatherings, banquets and other worldly amusements; vain and deceiving as they are, they captivate the senses for the time being, but bring no lasting contentment; rather they afflict man in the depth of his soul where alone true peace can reside.</span></p><p zid="76"><br /><span zid="217" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"></span></p><p zid="76"><a href="http://cathom.blogspot.com/2009/01/uniformity-with-will-of-god.html">Uniformity with the Will of God</a><span zid="217" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 204);"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-4595706054515084702010-02-06T08:12:00.000-08:002010-02-06T08:15:51.837-08:00let not one particle of time be wasted<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; "><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=EMxDAAAAIAAJ&dq=inauthor%3Asegneri&pg=PA64&ci=137%2C92%2C823%2C653&source=bookclip"><img src="http://books.google.com/books?id=EMxDAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA64&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U3mngFOc53zaBAqviHjL88nyVLjxw&ci=137%2C92%2C823%2C653&edge=0" /></a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-8981438754023066552010-01-26T22:59:00.000-08:002010-01-26T23:00:05.811-08:00Mater patris et filia<object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AiWbg2bmZ_A&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AiWbg2bmZ_A&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object>
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<br />1. Mater patris et filia,
<br />Supernorum laetitia,
<br />Stella maris eximia.
<br />Audi nostra suspiria.
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<br />2. Regina poli curiae,
<br />Mater misericordiae,
<br />In hac valle miseriae
<br />Sis reis porta veniae.
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<br />3. Maria, propter filium
<br />Confer nobis praesidium;
<br />Bone fili, prece matris
<br />Dona tuis regnum patris. </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Mother of your Father, and daughter,</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> delight of women, wondrous star of the sea, hear our sighing. Queen of the seat of the pole, Mother of mercy, in this valley of woe, Mary, for the sake of your Son bring us healing; Good Jesu, Son of God, hear our prayers, and by our prayers grant us healing. Amen.</span></p><p><span style="font-size:100%;">Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-4160837998261903882010-01-26T22:58:00.002-08:002010-01-26T22:59:23.730-08:00...Ergo maris Stella<object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GfbITZgBZzs&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GfbITZgBZzs&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br />Ergo maris Stella,<br />Verbi Dei cella<br />Et solis aurora;<br />Paradisi porta<br />Per quam lux est orta,<br />Natum tuum ora:<br />Ut nos solvat a peccatis<br />Et in regno claritatis<br />Quo lux lucet sedula<br />Collocet per secula.<br />Amen.<br /><br />Therefore, Star of the Sea,<br />Chamber of the Divine Word<br />And dawning of the Sun,<br />Gateway to Paradise,<br />Through which light ariseth,<br />Entreat thy Son on our behalf:<br />That he may deliver us from sin,<br />And set us for ever<br />In the realm of splendour,<br />Where light everlasting shineth forth.<br />Amen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-80967826805569463632010-01-26T22:58:00.001-08:002010-01-26T22:58:32.720-08:00Ave MariaAve Maria:<br /><object height="295" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LmUWbLNrlrY&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LmUWbLNrlrY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="295" width="480"></embed></object><br />AVE Maria, gratia plena,<br />Dominus tecum, virgo serena !<br /><br />Benedicta tu in mulieribus,<br />Que peperisti pacem hominibus,<br />Et angelis gloriam.<br /><br />Et benedictus fructus ventris tui<br />Qui cohaeredes ut essemus sui<br />Nos fecit per gratiam.<br /><br />Per hoc autem Ave<br />Mundo tam suave,<br /><br />Contra carnis jura<br />Genuisti prolem,<br />Novum Stella solem<br />Nova genitura.<br /><br />ALL to thee, Mary, richly grace-laden !<br />Heaven be with thee, beautiful maiden !<br /><br />Blest indeed art thou 'mongst women, for 'tis thou<br />Who hast brought forth peace for men on earth below,<br /><br />Glory for the Angel-race :<br /><br />And blest too is the fruit thy womb hath given,<br />Who thus with Him to be co-heirs of heaven<br /><br />Hath allowed us of His grace.<br /><br />Through this salutation,<br />Sweet to all creation,<br /><br />Thou, new Star ! hast given<br />'Gainst the law of nature<br />Birth to a new creature.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-87764671815687459442010-01-26T22:56:00.002-08:002010-01-26T22:58:05.501-08:00Ave Mundi Spes MariaAve Mundi Spes Maria<br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_MbDqc3x97k&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_MbDqc3x97k&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Ave mundi spes Maria, ave mitis, ave pia, ave plena gratia.<br />Ave virgo singularis, quæ per rubum designaris non passus incendia.<br />Ave rosa speciosa, ave Jesse virgula:<br />Cujus fructus nostri luctus relaxavit vincula.<br />Ave cujus viscera contra mortis foedera ediderunt filium.<br />Ave carens simili, mundo diu flebili reparasti gaudium.<br />Ave virginum lucerna, per quam fulsit lux superna his quos umbra tenuit.<br />Ave virgo de qua nasci, et de cujus lacte pasci res cælorum voluit.<br />Ave gemma coeli luminarium.<br />Ave Sancti Spiritus sacrarium.<br />Oh, quam mirabilis, et quam laudabilis hæc est virginitas!<br />In qua per spiritum facta paraclitum fulsit foecunditas.<br />Oh, quam sancta, quam serena, quam benigna, quam amoena esse virgo creditur!<br />Per quam servitus finitur, posta coeli aperitur, et libertas redditur.<br />Oh, castitatis lilium, tuum precare filium, qui salus est humilium:<br />Ne nos pro nostro vitio, in flebili judicio subjiciat supplicio.<br />Sed nos tua sancta prece mundans a peccati fæce collocet in lucis domo.<br />Amen dicat omnis homo.<br /><br />Hail, hope of the world, Mary, hail, meek one, hail, loving one, hail, full of grace<br />Hail O singular virgin, who wast chosen to not suffer flames through brambles<br />Hail, beautiful rose, hail, staff of Jesse:<br />Whose fruit loosened the chains of our weeping<br />Hail whose womb bore a son against the law of death<br />Hail, O one lacking comparison, still tearfully renewing joy for the world<br />Hail, lamp of virgins, through whom the heavenly light shone on these whom shadow holds.<br />Hail, O virgin from whom a thing of heaven wished to be born, and from whose milk feed.<br />Hail, gem of the lamps of heaven<br />Hail, sanctuary of the Holy Ghost<br />O, how wonderful, and how praiseworthy is this virginity!<br />In whom, made through the spirit, the paraclete, shone fruitfulness.<br />O how holy, how serene, how kind, how pleasant the virgin is believed to be!<br />Through whom slavery is finished, a place of heaven is opened, and liberty is returned.<br />O, lily of chastity, pray to thy son, who is the salvation of the humble:<br />Lest we through our fault, in the tearful judgment suffer punishment.<br />But may she, by her holy prayer, purifying from the dregs of sin, place us in a home of light<br />Amen let every man say.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-28718507578092194782010-01-26T22:56:00.001-08:002010-03-25T11:14:11.156-07:00Veni Sancte Spiritus<object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yHMnV134FKA&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yHMnV134FKA&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object>
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<br /><p></p><dd><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;" ><table style=";font-size:13px;color:black;"><tbody><tr><th><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Latin text</span></th><th><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">English version</span></th></tr><tr><td><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Veni, Sancte Spiritus,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">et emitte caelitus</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">lucis tuae radium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Veni, pater pauperum,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">veni, dator munerum</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">veni, lumen cordium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Consolator optime,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">dulcis hospes animae,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">dulce refrigerium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">In labore requies,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">in aestu temperies</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">in fletu solatium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">O lux beatissima,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">reple cordis intima</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">tuorum fidelium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Sine tuo numine,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">nihil est in homine,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">nihil est innoxium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Lava quod est sordidum,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">riga quod est aridum,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">sana quod est saucium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Flecte quod est rigidum,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">fove quod est frigidum,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">rege quod est devium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Da tuis fidelibus,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">in te confidentibus,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">sacrum septenarium.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Da virtutis meritum,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">da salutis exitum,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">da perenne gaudium,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Amen, Alleluia.</span></dd></dl></td><td><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Come, Holy Spirit,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">send forth the heavenly</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">radiance of your light.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Come, father of the poor,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">come giver of gifts,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">come, light of the heart.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Greatest comforter,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">sweet guest of the soul,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">sweet consolation.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">In labor, rest,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">in heat, temperance,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">in tears, solace.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">O most blessed light,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">fill the inmost heart</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">of your faithful.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Without your divine will,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">there is nothing in man,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">nothing is harmless.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Wash that which is unclean,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">water that which is dry,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">heal that which is wounded.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Bend that which is inflexible,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">warm that which is chilled,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">make right that which is wrong.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Give to your faithful,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">who rely on you,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">the sevenfold gifts.</span></dd></dl><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Give reward to virtue,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">give salvation at our passing on,</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">give eternal joy.</span></dd><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-left: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Amen. 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<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Credo in unum Deum
<br />Patrem omnipoténtem,
<br />factórem cæli et terræ,
<br />visibílium ómnium et invisibílium.
<br />Et in unum Dóminum Iesum Christum,
<br />Fílium Dei Unigénitum,
<br />et ex Patre natum ante ómnia sæcula.
<br />Deum de Deo, lumen de lúmine, Deum verum de Deo vero,
<br />génitum, non factum, consubstantiálem Patri:
<br />per quem ómnia facta sunt.
<br />Qui propter nos hómines et propter nostram salútem
<br />descéndit de cælis.
<br />Et incarnátus est de Spíritu Sancto
<br />ex María Vírgine, et homo factus est.
<br />Crucifíxus étiam pro nobis sub Póntio Piláto;
<br />passus, et sepúltus est,
<br />et resurréxit tértia die, secúndum Scriptúras,
<br />et ascéndit in cælum, sedet ad déxteram Patris.
<br />Et íterum ventúrus est cum glória,
<br />iudicáre vivos et mórtuos,
<br />cuius regni non erit finis.
<br />Et in Spíritum Sanctum, Dóminum et vivificántem:
<br />qui ex Patre Filióque procédit.
<br />Qui cum Patre et Fílio simul adorátur et conglorificátur:
<br />qui locútus est per prophétas.
<br />Et unam, sanctam, cathólicam et apostólicam Ecclésiam.
<br />Confíteor unum baptísma in remissiónem peccatorum.
<br />Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
<br />et vitam ventúri sæculi. Amen.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-33165650878931135792010-01-26T22:42:00.000-08:002010-01-26T22:43:39.197-08:00Salve Regina<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AiSqIg4Hxn8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AiSqIg4Hxn8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aJPwUAX2KfM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aJPwUAX2KfM&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br />Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae:<br />Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.<br />Ad te clamamus, exsules, filii Hevae.<br />Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes<br />in hac lacrimarum valle.<br />Eia ergo, Advocata nostra,<br />illos tuos misericordes oculos<br />ad nos converte.<br />Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,<br />nobis, post hoc exsilium ostende.<br />O clemens: O pia: O dulcis<br />Virgo Maria.<br />Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy!<br />Our life, our sweetness, and our hope!<br />To thee do we cry, poor banished<br />children of Eve, to thee do we send<br />up our sighs, mourning and weeping<br />in this valley, of tears.<br />Turn, then, most gracious advocate,<br />thine eyes of mercy toward us; and<br />after this our exile show unto us the<br />blessed fruit of thy womb Jesus;<br />O clement, O loving, O sweet virgin Mary.<br />Pray for us, O holy Mother of God<br />That we may be made worthy of the<br />promises of Christ.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-91599144048563492242010-01-26T22:41:00.000-08:002010-01-26T22:42:10.899-08:00Ave Maris StellaAve Maris Stella:
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<br />Ave maris stella,
<br />Déi mater alma,
<br />atque semper virgo,
<br />félix caeli porta.
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<br />Hail, star of the sea,
<br />Nurturing Mother of God,
<br />And ever Virgin,
<br />Happy gate of Heaven.
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<br />Sumens illud «Ave»</span></p><p>Gabriélis ore,</p><p>funda nos in pace,</p><p>mutans Evae<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maris_Stella#cite_note-2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[3]</span></a> nomen.</p><p>
<br />Receiving that "Ave" (<a title="Hail Mary" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hail</span></a>)
<br />From the mouth of Gabriel,
<br />Establish us in peace,
<br />Transforming the name of "Eva" (<a title="Adam and Eve" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_and_Eve"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Eve</span></a>).
<br />(The word "Hail" in Latin [Ave] is the reverse spelling of the Latin for "Eve" [Eva].)
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<br />Solve vincla reis,
<br />profer lumen caecis,
<br />mala nostra pelle,
<br />bona cuncta posce.
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<br />Loosen the chains of the guilty,
<br />Send forth light to the blind,
<br />Our evil do thou dispel,
<br />Entreat (for us) all good things.
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<br />Monstra te esse matrem,</p><p>sumat per te precem <a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maris_Stella#cite_note-3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[4]</span></a></p><p>qui pro nobis natus</p><p>tulit esse tuus.</p><p>
<br />Show thyself to be a Mother:
<br />Through thee may he (<a title="Jesus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jesus</span></a>) receive (our) prayer
<br />Who, being born for us,
<br />Undertook to be thine own (Son).
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<br />Virgo singuláris,</p><p>inter omnes mitis,</p><p>nos culpis solútos</p><p>mites fac et castos.</p><p>
<br />O unique Virgin,
<br />Meek above all others,
<br />Make us, set free from (our) sins,
<br />Meek and chaste.
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<br />Vitam praesta puram,
<br />iter para tutum,
<br />ut vidéntes Iesum,
<br />semper collaetémur.
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<br />Bestow a pure life,
<br />Prepare a safe way:
<br />That seeing Jesus,
<br />We may ever rejoice.
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<br />Sit laus Deo Patri,
<br />summo Christo decus,
<br />Sprítui Sancto
<br />honor, tribus unus. Amen.<a title="" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Maris_Stella#cite_note-4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[5]</span></a>
<br />Praise be to God the Father,
<br />To the Most High Christ (be) glory,
<br />To the Holy Spirit
<br />(Be) honor, to the Three equally. Amen.
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-72688646184416471782010-01-20T14:27:00.000-08:002010-01-20T14:28:20.872-08:00The Ave Maria expounded by St. Bellarmine<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div class="l1-head" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">Cap. V. The declaration of the Aue Maria.</div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">NOw you haue declared to me the <span class="rend-italic">Pater noster,</span> I desire <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=103">Page 102</a></span> that you declare also, the <span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria</span></p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">I wil do it willingly, for I desire that you be most deuout to our bles|sed Ladie. The <span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria</span> in our vulgar tongue is this: Haile Marie ful of grace, &c.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">What meaneth it, that to the <span class="rend-italic">Pa|ter noster,</span> the <span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria</span> is ioyned, rather then anie other prayer?</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">For so much as we haue no ad|uocate nor intercessor with Christ, more potent then his Mother, ther|fore when wee haue said the praier, which Christ hath taught vs, we re|paire also to his mother, to the end that she by her intercession, may helpe vs to obtaine, that we haue de|manded, in saying the <span class="rend-italic">Pater noster:</span> like as in this world, when we haue geuen a supplication to the Prince, wee recommend the busines vnto the most potent that is in the court.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">Who composed the <span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria?</span></p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">God himselfe hath composed it. <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=104">Page 103</a></span> For albeit hee taught it not by his owne mouth, yet he taught it by the mouth of the Archangel Gabriel, of S. Elizabeth, and of the Church. For those wordes, Haile Marie full of grace, our Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women: were spoken by the Archangel Gabriel, but hee spake them as Gods embassadour, & so hee spake them as from God, and God spake them by the mouth of his Embassadour. Those other wordes: & blessed is the fruit of thy wombe, Saint Elizabeth spake, but she spake them whē she was replenished with the Holy Ghost, as the Euangelist Saint Luke testifyeth. Whereby it appeareth, that the holy Ghost spake them by the mouth of S. Elizabeth. Al the rest, holy church hath added, which is gouerned & taught by the same holy ghost; so it may welbe said that after the <span class="rend-italic">pater noster</span> which christ taught vs by his owne mouth, the <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=105">Page 104</a></span><span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria</span> is the most excellent prayer that can be found: being cō|posed by the same God, & taught vs by the mouth of his seruants.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">Let vs come thē to the declaratiō Wherefore do we say, Haile Marie?</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">This is a salutation, which we geue vnto her, to shew that we are friendes and of acquaintance, and therefore dare come to speake vnto her, and we vse the words of the An|gel, for that we know that she is plea|sed to heare often that newes which the Angell brought her, when hee spake the same wordes: and shee re|joyceth also, that wee are mindefull thereof, and that we are gratefull to God for so great a benefite.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">What meaneth, Full of grace?</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">The grace of God worketh three principall effects in the soule. It wi|peth out the sinnes which are as spottes that defile the soule: it ador|neth the same soule with giftes and <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=106">Page 105</a></span>vertues: and finallie, it in-ableth to doe meritorious workes, gratefull to the diuine Majestie. Our Ladie is full of grace, because touching the first effect, she neuer had any spot of sinne, neither Original nor Actuall, neither mortal nor venial: Touching the second, she had al the vertues & gifts of the holy ghost, in the highest degree. Touching the third, she did works so gratefull vnto God, and so meritorious, that she was worthie to be assumpted in bodie and soule a|boue al the orders of Angels.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">It seemeth not that our Ladie had more grace then other Saints. For I haue often heard that S. Stephen & other Saints were full of grace.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">How much soeuer it is said of o|ther Saints, that they were full of grace, yet our Ladie had most grace of them al: for that she was made by God capable of more grace, then a|ny other Saints: as for example if <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=107">Page 106</a></span>manie vessels one greater then an o|ther were filled with balme, al should be ful, & yet in the greatest should be more balme, then in the others. And the reason of this is, because God doeth make men capable of more or lesse grace, according to the offices which he geueth them. And for so much as the greatest office that hath been geuen to a meere creature, was to be the Mother of God, therefore our Ladie was made capable of, & filled with more grace then anie other meere creature.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">What meaneth, Our Lord is with thee?</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">this is an other singular praise of the blessed virgin which signi|fieth to vs that our Lord hath bene with our Ladie from the beginning of her conception, with a perpetual assistance, gouerning her, directing her, and defending her. And hereof it commeth that she neuer commit|ted <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=108">Page 107</a></span>anie sinne, either in thought, in worde, or in deed. Wherevpon God hath not only adorned this most holy virgin with al graces, but he would also remaine alwaies with her as guardian of so great a treasure.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">What meaneth, Blessed art thou among women?</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">This is the third praise, which is geuen to our B. Ladie, in which is declared, that she is not only ful of al the graces, which can belong to a virgin: but of those also which can belong vnto a wife, and therby doth absolutly surpasse al other women, which haue bene, or shal be. The be|nediction of a married woman is fe|cunditie, and this was not wanting to the blessed Virgin, seeing shee hath brought foorth a childe, which is more worth, then a hundreth thousand Children. It may also be said, that shee is a Mother of a verie great number of Children: for that <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=109">Page 108</a></span>all good Christians are brothers to Christ, and consequently are childrē to our Ladie, not by birth and na|ture, in which maner only Christ is her childe: but by loue and mother|lie affection, which she had towards all. Whereupon she is worthely said to bee blessed amongst all women: because others had either the glorie of virginitie without fecunditie, or the benediction of fecunditie with|out Virginitie: she only had joyntlie by a singuler priuiledge of God, the honour of perfect virginitie, with the benediction of the highest and most happie fecunditie.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">What meaneth. And blessed is the fruit of thy wombe Iesus.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">This is the fourth praise, which is giuen to our Ladie, that she is not onely worthy of honour, for that she hath in her selfe: but for that also, which is in the fruit of her wombe. Because the praise of the fruite re|doundeth <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=110">Page 109</a></span>to the tree, and the glorie of the child redoundeth to the mo|ther. And because Iesus is not onlie true man, and blessed amongst men; but is also God, blessed aboue all things, as S. Paul teacheth vs, there|fore his mother is not onely blessed amongst women; but shee is blessed amongst all the creatures, as well in earth as in heauen.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">Declare vnto me I pray you that which remaineth of the <span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria.</span></p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">In the words following, the holy Church repeating the principall praise of our Ladie, which is to bee the mother of God, and so shewing, that she can obtain of the same God what shee pleaseth, desireth her to make intercession for vs, who haue great need thereof being sinners, & that she help vs while we liue, and in particular, at the poynt of death, when we shal be in greatest danger.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">S</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">I would gladly know, wherefore it <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=111">Page 110</a></span> ring to the <span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria,</span> three times in the day, to wit, in the morning, at midday, and in the euening.</p></div><div class="sp" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; "><div class="speaker" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; direction: inherit; ">M</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; direction: inherit; ">To the end we may vnderstand, that we haue need to make recourse often to the helpe of God, and of the Saints: being in the middest of ene|mies visible & inuisible. And that we ought not to thinke it sufficient to haue recourse to the armour of praier in the beginning of our works but that we must do the same in the progresse and in the end. There is also an other mysterie in this ringing thrise to the <span class="rend-italic">Aue Maria.</span> That is, ho|lie Church would haue vs continu|ally to remember the three principal mysteries of our Redemptiō, the In|carnation, the Passion, and the Re|surrection. And therfore willeth that wee salute our B. Ladie in the mor|ning, in memorie of the Resurrecti|on of our lord: at midday, in memo|rie of the passion: & at night, in me|mory <span class="pbtext"><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=112">Page 111</a></span>of the Incarnation. Because as we are certaine that our Lord was mayled on the Crosse at midday, & rose in the morning, so it is probably thought, that the Incarnation was in the night.</p></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-29458252855129759072010-01-19T21:44:00.000-08:002010-02-02T20:02:18.802-08:00Excerpts from the 'Small Number Saved' sermon of Bp. Massillon<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:medium;"><div>Quotes from<a href="http://cathom.blogspot.com/2008/09/on-small-number-of-saved.html" style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170); text-decoration: none; "> On the Small Number of the Saved</a>:</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">in the holy writings, the multitude is always spoken of as forming the party of the reprobate; while the saved, compared with the rest of mankind, form only a small flock, scarcely perceptible to the sight.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">No subject can be more worthy your attention, since it goes to inform you what may be the hopes of your eternal destiny.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Nothing unclean shall enter the kingdom of God. We must consequently carry there, either an innocence unsullied, or an innocence regained. <span><span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">Now, to die innocent, is a grace to which few souls can aspire; and to live penitent, is a mercy, which the relaxed state of our morals renders equally rare.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">the world, pretending now to have become almost generally Christian, has brought with it into the church its corruptions and its maxims.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> Where are the penitent? <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">You will find more, says a holy father, who have never fallen, than who, after their fall, have raised themselves by true repentance.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">According to Tertullian, a penitent is a believer, who feels every moment the unhappiness which he formerly had, to forget and lose his God: who has <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">his guilt incessantly before his eyes; who finds everywhere the traces and remembrance of it.</span><br /><br />A penitent is a man, intrusted by God with judgment against himself; who <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">refuses himself the most innocent pleasures, because he had formerly indulged in the most criminal.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">But I again ask you, Where amongst us are penitents of this description? Now, look around you. I do not tell you to judge your brethren, but to examine what are the manners and morals of those who surround you; nor do I speak of those open and avowed sinners, who have thrown off even the appearance of virtue; <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">I speak only of those who, like yourselves, live like the generality, and whose actions present nothing to the public view particularly shameful or depraved.</span> They are sinners, and they admit of it: you are not innocent, and you confess it yourselves. Now, are they penitent; or are you?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">though detached from sin by incapability, you are no nearer your God. According to the world you are become more prudent, more regular, more what it calls men of probity; <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">more exact in fulfilling your public or private duties; but you are not penitent. You have ceased from your disorders, but you have not expiated them:</span> you are not converted; this great stroke, this grand change of the heart, which regenerates man, has not yet been felt by you. Nevertheless, this situation, so truly dangerous, does not alarm you: sins, which have never been washed away by sincere repentance, and consequently never obliterated from the book of life, appear in your eyes as no longer existing; and <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">you will tranquilly leave this world in a state of impenitence, so much the more dangerous, as you will die without being sensible of your danger.</span> What I say here, is not merely a rash expression, or an emotion of zeal; <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">nothing is more real, or more exactly true: it is the situation of almost all men, even the wisest and most esteemed of the world.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 29px;font-size:18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">And what renders it still more dreadful is, that, acting in this manner, you only follow the torrent: your morals are the morals of almost all men. You may, perhaps, be acquainted with some still more guilty (for I suppose you to have still remaining some sentiments of religion, and regard for your salvation); <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">but do you know any real penitents? I am afraid we must search the deserts and solitudes for them</span>. You can scarcely particularize, among persons of rank and usage of the world, a small number whose morals and mode of life, more austere and more guarded than the generality, attract the attention, and very likely the censure of the public: <span style="background-color: rgb(176, 238, 251); ">all the rest walk in the same path.</span><br /></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; "><div>...a religious and pious soul in the midst of the world, is always a singularity approaching to a miracle.</div><div><br /></div><div>... It is the multitude nevertheless, who tremble not. There is only a small number of just, which operates apart its salvation, with fear and trembling; all the rest are tranquil.</div><div><br /></div><div>...in order to merit salvation, you must distinguish yourself from the rest; in the midst of the world, lead a life to the glory of God, and resemble not the multitude.</div><div><br /></div><div>Behold the fruit which you ought to reap from this discourse; live apart; think, without ceasing, that the great number work their own destruction; regard as nothing all customs of the earth, unless authorized by the law of God; and remember, that holy men have, in all ages, been looked upon as singular.</div></span></div></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-41595929355566607022010-01-17T16:34:00.000-08:002010-01-17T16:36:01.803-08:00Pater noster expounded by St. Robert Bellarmine<div> <div><a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfsq4btf_112dtdhrjcm">Catechism of St. Bellarmine</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">For what cause do you prefer the <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=79" target="_blank">Page 78</a></span><span>Pater noster,</span> before all other praiers?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">First, because it is the most ex|cellent of all, being made by Christ himselfe, who is the supreame wis|dome. Secondly, because this praier is shortest, and so is easie to be lear|ned and kept in memorie, & with al ful of substance, conteyning all that we ought to demand of God: third|ly, because it is most profitable, and effectual, being made by him who is both our Iudge & our Aduocate, & therefore knoweth better then any other, how we ought to demaunde, that we may obtaine. Fourthlie it is the most necessarie of all others, in regard that all Christians are bound to know it, & to repeate it euery day, and therefore it is called the dailie praier, that is to say, prayer to be said euery day.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Declare then (I pray you) those wordes: Our Father which art in heauen.</span></p> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=80" target="_blank">Page 79</a></span></span><div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">These few words are, as it were a litle preface, or a preparation to the praier. For in saying that God is our Father, we take corage & confidèce, to pray vnto him: in saying hee is in heauē, we remember our selues, that we ought to go vnto him with great feare & humilitie, seeing he is notan earthly father, but an heauēly: again, saying he is a Father, wee consider that he is willing to pleasure vs, in that wee demaund; in saying hee is in heauen as Lord & master of the world, we vnderstande that he can do so much as he wil. Finally, in say|ing he is a Father, we remember that we are children of God, & heires of heauen, in saying he is in heauen; & considering that we are on earth, we remēber that we haue not the pos|session of our inheritance, but that wee are pilgrims and trauellers, in a land of our enemies, and therefore stand in great neede of his helpe.</span></p> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=81" target="_blank">Page 80</a></span></span><div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Declare (if you please) vnto mee all the words in particular.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The worde Father, albeit it be|longeth to God, as he is Father of all things by creation, yet in this pray|er, it is vnderstood of God, as hee is the Father of good Christians by a|doption. It is true also that sinners may say vnto God, Our father, who desire to be conuerted to him, & to become his childrē. And only those cannot truly saye, the <span>Pater noster,</span> who neither are, nor desire to be the children of God, not thinking at all of amending themselues.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherefore is it said, Our Father, and not my Father?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">It is said, Our Father, to the end wee may vnderstand that we are all brethren, and as brethren ought to loue, and be vnited together, being the children of one & the same Fa|ther. It is also said, Our Father, to teach vs, that a cōmon praier is better <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=82" target="_blank">Page 65</a></span>then a priuate, and more profitable also vnto him that doth pray: for that whiles each one saith: Our Fa|ther, euerie one prayeth for al, and al pray for euerie one.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherefore is it said, Which are in heauen? is not God in al places?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">God is said to dwel in heauen, not for that he is not in al places: but because heauen is the most noble part of the world, and in it doth ap|peare the greatnes, powre, and wis|dome of God. Finally in it, God vouchsafeth to be seene face to face, of the Angels, and blessed men. It may be also said, that God is in hea|uen, because he dwelleth in a per|ticuler manner, in the Angels, & in holie mē, who are spiritual heauens.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Let vs now come vnto the first petition, what meaneth: Hallowed be thy name?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Name in this place, signifieth same and renoume, as when we say <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=83" target="_blank">Page 82</a></span> that one hath a great name, because he is knowne of manie. Or that he hath a good name, or an euil name; because he hath a good fame, or an euil fame, being knowne of manie and commended for good, or dis|commended for bad. Wherefore to sanctifie the name of God, is no|thing els, then to publish through the world the knowledge of God, & to conserue it pure and holie in the hartes and mouthes of men, as in it selfe it is. And because there are in the world manie infidels, who know not God, and manie euil Christians, that blaspheme & curse him, there|fore those that are the children of God, and haue zeale of the honour of their father, do praie with great desire, that his name may be sancti|fied, that is, that it be through the whole world knowen, adored, cōfes|sed, praised & blessed, as is conueniēt</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Seing wee desire, that God bee <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=84" target="_blank">Page 83</a></span> knowen, and praised of men, were it not better to demand it of men, thē of God.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Man is not able of him self, nei|ther to knowe, nor to praise God, & therfore we demand of God, that he wil worke with his grace in that maner, that the Infidels, and other sinners may be conuerred, & being conuered, beginne to know & praise his holie name.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherefore is the prayer begune with demanding, that the name of God be sanctified?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">We are bound to loue God aboue al things, & more then our selues; & therefore our first, & most frequent desire ought to be of the glorie of God, and for this cause were we cre|ated, and endued with reason, to the end we may know, and praise God: wherein also doth consist our chifest good, as we shal say here after.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Declare vnto me now the second <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=85" target="_blank">Page 84</a></span> petition: Thy kingdome come,</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">In this petition, in fit place we demand our owne saluation, after that in the first we demanded the glorie of God?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">What is to be vnderstood, by the kingdome of God?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The kingdome of God may be vnderstood three maner of waies: for we finde a kingdome of nature, a kingdom of grace, and a kingdome of glorie. The kingdome of nature is that, where with God gouerneth al the creatures, as absolute Lord of al things. For albeit peruerse men do euil, and obserue not the law of God, yet God doth raigne ouer thē, for that when it pleaseth him he hin|dereth their disignmentes. And though he permit them sometimes to haue their desires, afterwardes hee punisheth them seuerely: and there is none that can resist his wil, nor that can do otherwise, then he <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=86" target="_blank">Page 85</a></span>ordaineth or permitteth. The king|dome of grace is that, wherewith God gouerneth & ruleth the soules, & harts of good Christians, giuing them spirite and grace to serue him willingly, & to seeke his glorie aboue all things. The kingdome of glorie shalbe in the other life, after the day of iudgement: for that then God wil raigne with all the Saints, ouer all things created, without any resistāce For thē al the force of the diuels shal be taken away, & also of al peruerse men, who shalbe shut vp in eternall prison of hel. In that time shal death also be extinguished, & corruption, with al the tentations of the world & of the flesh, which now trouble the seruāts of God. So that shalbe quiet & peaceable kingdome, with secure possessiō of perfect & eternal felicity</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Which of these three kingdomes <span>•</span>s spoken of, in this petition?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Not of the first: for that is not to <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=87" target="_blank">Page 86</a></span> come, but is now come. Neither of the second, for that is spoken of in the first petition, & is in a great part already come. But here is spoken of the third, which is to come, and is ex|pected with great desire, of al those that know the miserie of this life: & so in this petition we demand our chiefe good, and the perfect glory of both soule and bodie.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">If the kingdome of God (which we desire may comequickly) shal be|gin after the day of Iudgment, then we desire & demand that this world should speedely end, & that the day of iudgement should come shortly.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">So it is: for thought the louers of the world can haue no worse newes, then to heare the day of Iudgement named: yet the citiznes of heauen, who liue now as pilgrimes, and ba|nished men here below in earth, haue no other greater desire: Where vpon S. Augustin saith, that like as <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=88" target="_blank">Page 87</a></span>before Christ came into the world, al the desires of the Saincts of the ancient law, were directed to the first comming of Christ: so now al the de|sires of holie men of the new law, are directed to the second comming of the same Christ, which wil bring vs perfect beatitude.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Let vs passe vnto the third petiti|on. What do those wordes signifie: Thy wil be done, in earth, as it is in heauen.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">In these words is demanded grace, to obserue wel the law of god. For that the eternal life, which is the end of man being demanded in the second petition, it was conuenient, that the principal meanes to arriue vnto that end should be demanded next after: & this principal meanes is the obseruing of the commande|ments of God, as our lord hath said: if thou wilt enter into eternall life: keep the commandements: & for so <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=89" target="_blank">Page 88</a></span>much as wee are not able of our selues, to kepe all the commande|ments in such sorte as we ought, therefore we demand of God, that his wil be done by vs: that is, that he geue vs grace to fulfil his wil, in obeying wholly, and in al things his holie commandements.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">I desire to know, whether that besides the fulfilling the wil of God in obseruing the commandements, we are bound also to conforme our willes with Gods wil, when he sen|deth vs tribulations?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">We are bound at the lest, not to murmour, nor to grudge at the pro|uidence of God: because al that he sendeth or permitteth, he doth it to a good end: to wit, to giue vs occasi|on of greater merite, if we be good: or els to purge vs if we be bad?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">To what purpose is added: In earth as it is in heauen;</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">To teach vs, that we ought to <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=90" target="_blank">Page 89</a></span> endeuour to obey God, and to ob|serue his holie commandements, with that perfection, promptnes & gladnes, with which the Angels do obey in heauen: who neuer commit|ted anie litle default in obseruing al the commandements of God. It may be also said that we desire; and demaund, that sinners, signified by the earth, may obey God, as the Saints do obey him who are signifi|ed by heauen, Or els that the whole Church, signified by the earth may intirely obey God, as Christ, who is signified by heauen, obeyd him.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Let vs come vnto the fourth pe|tition: what meaneth, Geue vs this day our daylie bread?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">With great reason, bread is de|manded that mainteineth life, after that grace hath been demanded, which is life it selfe, For that the first thing, that anie one begining to liue desireth, is food, where with life is <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=91" target="_blank">Page 90</a></span>maintained. But you haue to vnder|stande, that in this prayer, spirituall bread is principally demaunded, which is the meate of the soule: and secondarily corporall bread, which is the food for the body. And by spi|rituall bread, is vnderstood the most holy Sacrament of the altar, that is the celestial and diuine bread, which merueilously nourisheth the life of the soule: & likewise the word of god is vnderstood, which by preaching or reading of spirituall bookes, help|eth no little to nourish the same life of the soule. Finally is vnderstood, the inspiration of God, prayer, and euery other thing, which helpeth to maintaine and increase grace in vs, the which (as is saide) is the life of the soule. By corporall bread is vn|derstood all that is needful vnto vs, to maintaine the life of the bodie, which is as an instrument of the soule, to do good workes.</span></p> </div> <div> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=92" target="_blank">Page 94</a></span></span><div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherefore is it saide, that this bread is ours.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">With great mysterie this bread is called ours, for if we speake of the blessed Sacrament, that is our bread, because of our saluation it was form|ed by the holy ghost, in the wombe of the blessed Virgin, and in a cer|taine manner, bakte in the Ouen of the holy Crosse, & serued vp, on the table of the Altar, by the handes of Priests. And moreouer it is ours, be|cause it is the bread proper of the children, and may not be giuen vn|to dogges, that is to say, to Infidels, nor to those that are in mortall sinne. If wee speake of the doctrine, wee call it our bread, to witte, that which is distributed by the true preachers, vnto the children of the Holy Church, and not the strange bread, to wit, that which al heretikes giue vnto their followers, which is corrupt and pestiferous bread. But if <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=93" target="_blank">Page 92</a></span>we speake of corporall bread, we de|fire that God will giue vs our owne bread, and not that which belong|eth to others, to wit, that he wil help vs in iust and lawfull gaines. And a|gaine, that he blesse our lands, pos|sessions, and all our labours, to the end, that without injurie and fraud, we may procure our liuing.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherefore is it saide, that this bread is dailie?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">It is called dailie, that is to saye, bread for euerie daye, for that wee desire not superfluous or curious things, but simply that which may suffice for the daies refection: and as well for the soule as for the bodie, e|specially knowing that wee are pil|grims, and strangers in this life.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherfore is it said: Giue vnto vs?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Because, albeit we are willing to labour to haue bread, as well spiri|tuall as corporall, yet wee know that our labours should all bee vaine, if <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=94" target="_blank">Page 93</a></span>God concurred not with his grace: as we often see that how much soe|uer men labour to sowe and reape, yet dearth doth happen for the sins of the world. We demaund also, that God giue vs our bread, that is to say, that not only he helpe vs to procure and gaine it, but that he also blesse and sanctifie it, when we vse it: that it may do vs good and be profitable both to soule and bodie.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherefore is annexed that worde this day?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The word, this day, signifyeth the whole time of this temporal life, and so we demand of God, that du|ring the time of this life he sustaine vs, with spiritual and corporal bread vntill wee arriue vnto our heauenly cuntrey, where we shall haue no need more of Sacraments of preachings, nor of corporall foode. It may be al|so said, that we demand of God that he giue vs to day this bread, because <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=95" target="_blank">Page 64</a></span>wee will not bee solicitous for the morrow, not knowing whether wee shall be liuing to morrow or no. And so our Lorde hath taught vs, not to trouble our selues, with things that be not present. So that we demand this daye, the bread which is suffici|ent for this day: & that for the mor|rew, we shal demand to morrow.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">There ariseth a new doubt to me, of that which you haue saide: for if wee ought not to trouble our selues with any thing, but with that which is present they doe euill, that make prouision of corne, of wine, and of o|ther necessaries, for the whole yeare.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Our Lord, when he taught vs, not to trouble our selues with things not present, meant nothing else, but to deliuer vs of superfluous cares, which do greatly hinder prayers, & other things of greater importance, that belong vnto the gaining of e|ternal life. And therefore when the <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=96" target="_blank">Page 95</a></span>care for things to come, is not super|fluous: but necessarie, as to make such prouision as you speake of, it is not euil to think of that, which is to come. Yea rather such a thought is not of the morow, but of this day: for if we should not thinke of it vntill to morow, we shuld not haue so fit time</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The fift petition followeth: What meaneth, And forgiue vs our debts, as we also forgiue our debters?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">We haue already, in the foure pe|titions that goe before, demanded of god, that he wil giue vs all things, as wel eternall as temporal: now in the three following, we demand, that he wil deliuer vs frō al euil past, present & to come: And so you see it is true which I said before, that in this prai|er is contained al that we can desire. Wee demaund then in this petiti|on, that God deliuer vs from euill, that is paste, to witte, from the sinnes which wee haue committed, so <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=97" target="_blank">Page 96</a></span>for so our Lorde declared vnto the holy Apostles, when he taught them this prayer; that by debts they ought to vnderstand sinnes.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">For what cause are sinnes called debts?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">For three causes. First, because euery man that sinneth, remaineth debter to satisfie God for the injurie which he hath done him. Secondly, because he that sinneth, doth trans|gresse the law of God; and because the same lawe promiseth rewarde to all that obserue it, and punishment to him that doth not obserue it, there+fore he that obserueth it not, remay|neth debter to paye the penaltie. Thirdly, because each one of vs is bound to cultiuate (or manure) the vineard of his soule, and to yeeld to God the fruite of his good workes. Therefore hee that doth not good workes, & much more he that doth euil works, insteed of good, is debter <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=98" target="_blank">Page 97</a></span>to god, who is the true lord of al vin|yards: & because al we do often faile aswel in doing that we ought not, as in doing that we ought: therfore it is cōuenient that oftentimes euery day we humbly desire of God that hee remit our debts.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Wherefore is it added, as we also forgiue our debters</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Here likewise by debtes, are vn|derstood the offences iniuries, which we receiue of ouer neighbours. And wee desire of God, that hee will pardon our offences, as wee pardon them, that haue offended vs: for that like as he who pardoneth the offen|ces receiued of his neighbour, is more disposed to receiue pardon of his offences committed against God so contrariwise, he that will not par|don the iniuries of his neighbour, doth make himselfe vnworthie, that God should pardon him. Finally, in saying that we pardon the iniuries of our neighbours, wee make knowne, <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=99" target="_blank">Page 98</a></span>that mercie doth please vs, and that we make account, that to pardon is a magnanimous & a notable thing. To the ende that when we demande mercie of God, he may not answere vs, how wouldest thou that I should vse mercie towards thee, seeing thou doest hate mercie towards others? & how doest thou demand pardon of me, seing thou esteemest pardoning as an act of a base minde.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">Declare then vnto me, I pray you the sixt petition. And leade vs not into tentation.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">In this petitiō is demanded help against euil to come: to wit, against tentations, which are occasions that make vs fall into sin. Here you haue to know that principally it is deman|ded, that God permit vs not to bee vanquished & ouercome by tētati|ons: & because tentatiōs are dange|rous, & the victorie doubtful, there|fore we demand also that God per|mit <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=100" target="_blank">Page 99</a></span>vs not to bee tempted, chiefly when he seeth that the victorie shall not be ours, but the diuels: & of this you are to draw an excellent lesson, to wit, that not only the diuel cānot ouercome vs, but also that he cānot so much as tempt vs, if God doe not permit him.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">I doe not well vnderstande that speach: Lead vs not into tentatiō: for it may seeme to haue this sense, that god vseth to lead men into tentatiōs and that we desire him not to do it?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">To bring or lead into tentations whether it be to tempt to euil, or to cause one to fall into sinne, is proper to the diuel, & pertaineth in no re|spect to God, who greately hateth sinne. But after the manner of spea|king in Holie Scripture, when God is said to induce or leade into tenta|tion, it is nothing else, but to permit that one be tempted, or ouercome by tentation: so the sense of this peti|tion <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=101" target="_blank">Page 100</a></span>is no other but as we haue said, that knowing our owne weakenes & frailtie, and on the othet side, the subtiltie and force of the diuel, we desire of God, not only that he wil not permit vs to be ouerthrowne by temptations, but also that he permit vs not to be tempted, if he see not, that we shall remaine victorious.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">The last petition remaineth: But deliuer vs from euill. What euill is spoke of in this petition?</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">This last petition doth in parte confirme the former petitions, and partly it addeth some things more. And therefore it saith: But deliuer vs from euill, that is, I do not onely de|mand that thou remit vnto vs our sinnes past, and defend vs from sins to come: but moreouer, that thou deliuer vs also from all present euil. And marke well that our Lord with great wisdome teacheth vs, to de|mand to be deliuered from all euill <span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=eebo;cc=eebo;idno=A07972.0001.001;vid=13191;seq=102" target="_blank">Page 105</a></span>and commeth not to particulars, as to pouertie, sicknes, persecutions, & the like, For that oftentimes it doth seeme vnto vs, that a thing is good for vs, which God doth see is euill. And contrariwise it seemeth to vs, that a thing is euil, which God seeth is good for vs. And therefore accor|ding to the instruction of our Lord, we demand, that he deliuer vs from all that which he seeth is euil for vs, be it prosperitie or aduersitie.</span></p> </div> <div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">S</span></div> <p><span style="font-size:100%;">What meaneth Amen?</span></p> </div> <div><span style="font-size:100%;">M</span></div> <span style="font-size:100%;">This is an Hebrew word, & (as I haue already said vnto you) it signi|fyeth, so be it: or, so it is. And as in the end of the Creed Amen signify|eth so it is, and so I beleeue: In like maner, in the end of the <span>Pater noster,</span> Amen signifyeth, so be it, so I desire, and so I pray that it may be done.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-65688339110224269512010-01-14T15:44:00.000-08:002010-01-17T15:23:23.711-08:00absence of reflection that every day throws into careers not made for them<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="line-height: 19px;font-family:sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 13px;font-family:tahoma;"><span style="line-height: 15px;font-family:Arial;"><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><ul style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 24px; "><li style="line-height: 2em; text-align: justify; "><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/States_of_Christian_Life_and_Vocation,_According_to_the_Doctors_and_Theologians_of_the_Church/Part_2/Section_1/Chapter_2" title="States of Christian Life and Vocation, According to the Doctors and Theologians of the Church/Part 2/Section 1/Chapter 2" target="_blank" style="line-height: 2em; color: rgb(86, 137, 66) !important; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">Chapter 2: Reflection</span></a></li></ul><div style="line-height: 2em; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 12px; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 216); text-align: justify; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">" WITH desolation is all the land made desolate," says the prophet, " because there is none that considers in his heart." (Jer. xii, 11.) It is this </span><span style="line-height: 2em; background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">absence of reflection that every day throws into careers not made for them</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;"> men who are swayed, not by reason or by grace, but by the threefold concupiscence spoken of in St. John. Who can tell the amount of evil which this thoughtlessness begets in individuals, in families, and in society at large? How many beings lead hapless lives because they are out of their true way ; </span><span style="line-height: 2em; background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">into how many dangers for salvation are not souls plunged inconsiderately, which might have been avoided by a little care and foresight !</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;"> What noble talents are buried in the earth, what grand intellects become utterly powerless ! </span><span style="line-height: 2em; background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">What countless souls, capable of the sublimest achievements, waste away in trifles and folly !</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">" O ye sons of men, how long will you be dull of heart? Why do you love vanity, and seek after lying?" (Ps. iv, 3.) Do you not fear the endless despair of those who shall cry out on the day of wrath, " Therefore we have erred from the way of truth, we fools" ? (Wisd. v, 6.) </span><span style="line-height: 2em; background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">" O that they" (young people) " would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;"> (Deut. xxxii, 29), in the important affair of the choice of a state of life. " Prudence," says the Angelical Doctor, " is one of the most necessary virtues for human life. To live well is to do well ; but to do well, it is not enough to act. We must, besides, act in a proper manner, that is to say, follow a righteous decision, and not be led by mere impulse or passion."</span><sup style="line-height: 0.8em; font-size: 0.916em; position: relative; top: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/States_of_Christian_Life_and_Vocation,_According_to_the_Doctors_and_Theologians_of_the_Church/Part_2/Section_1/Chapter_2#cite_note-0" title="" target="_blank" style="line-height: 2em; color: rgb(86, 137, 66) !important; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">[1]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">But if this righteous decision is required in all human acts, it is still more heedful when there is question of one of the </span><span style="line-height: 2em; background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">most decisive and important acts of our whole existence on earth. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">Now, among the faults opposed to prudence, St. Thomas reckons imprudence, precipitation, and thoughtlessness, or want of reflection.</span><sup style="line-height: 0.8em; font-size: 0.916em; position: relative; top: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/States_of_Christian_Life_and_Vocation,_According_to_the_Doctors_and_Theologians_of_the_Church/Part_2/Section_1/Chapter_2#cite_note-1" title="" target="_blank" style="line-height: 2em; color: rgb(86, 137, 66) !important; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">[2]</span></a></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;"> This last defect consists in</span><span style="line-height: 2em; background-color: rgb(204, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;"> overlooking or neglecting things that may lead to a wrong judgment</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">, and it is evident that this is a defect.</span><sup style="line-height: 0.8em; font-size: 0.916em; position: relative; top: 0.1em; "><a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/States_of_Christian_Life_and_Vocation,_According_to_the_Doctors_and_Theologians_of_the_Church/Part_2/Section_1/Chapter_2#cite_note-2" title="" target="_blank" style="line-height: 2em; color: rgb(86, 137, 66) !important; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">[3]</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://cathom.blogspot.com/2009/10/exerpts-on-vocation.html" style="line-height: 2em; color: rgb(86, 137, 66) !important; text-decoration: underline; cursor: pointer !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;">Excerpts on Vocation</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 2em; font-size:small;"><br /></span></sup></div></span></span></span></li></ul></span></span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-59204376668079291482010-01-14T09:20:00.000-08:002010-01-14T09:28:08.080-08:00we must always live in serious uncertainty about ourselves<a href="http://books.google.com/books?dq=inauthor:segneri&pg=PA405&id=WtFDAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=false">The Manna of the Soul Vol. II, pp. 405-6</a><div><a href="http://books.google.com/books?dq=inauthor:segneri&pg=PA405&id=WtFDAAAAIAAJ#v=onepage&q=&f=false"></a><br /><div>I. Consider first, that the Preacher is not here speaking of any class of men, whether just or sinners, but of the just only; because sinners know quite certainly that they are worthy of hatred, whereas<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"> the just do not know certainly that they are just</span>; and therefore neither do they know certainly that they are worthy of love. And the reason of this difference is, that sin is altogether our own work, so that we may easily know whether we are guilty of it. But infused and inherent grace, which renders us just, is altogether the work of God, and an interior and imperceptible work, so that we cannot know that we are possessed of it. We do indeed know that it follows infallibly when preceded by the right dispositions; but who can assure us of possessing these? The only two channels which convey sanctifying grace to our souls are <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">Baptism</span> and Penance: the first cancels original, the second actual sin. The first <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">requires the intention of the person who administers it, which is hidden from us</span>; the second requires, in addition, on our part, a detestation of sin, which includes <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">true repentance and a sincere resolution of amendment.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">And who can give us the assurance that we possess this in a sufficient degree?</span> It is indeed written, "When thou shalt seek the Lord thy God thou shalt find Him;" but it is also added, "Yet so, if thou seek Him with all thy heart, and all the affliction of thy soul."1 Here is the uncertainty, and therefore, " No man knoweth whether he be worthy of love or hatred, but all things are kept uncertain for the time to come," that is to say, " for the time when Christ shall sit in judgment." Till then <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">we must always live in serious uncertainty about ourselves, not even knowing whether we shall be saved</span>. When therefore, it is here said, " Man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love or hatred," two kinds of hatred are meant. First, that simple hatred with which God regards the sinner when He sees him in a state of sin, and although He is angry with him on account of that sin, yet bears with him ; and this is the hatred of indignation. And secondly, that consummate hatred with which God regards him when He sees him in a state of sin, and is not only angry with him on account of that sin, but also allows him to die in it, and so to be damned ; and this is the hatred of reprobation. Is it possible that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">thou art not afraid at finding thyself in so terrible an uncertainty as this ?</span> " Fear and trembling are come upon me, and darkness hath covered me,'"2 that is, "because darkness hath covered me"—"fear" as to the present, "trembling" as to the future.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-53596613313904466132010-01-13T17:48:00.000-08:002010-01-14T11:59:16.244-08:00Ave Maria verseFROM <a href="http://cathom.blogspot.com/2009/01/mysteries-of-rosary-explained-by.html">Instructions for the use of the beades</a><br /><br />If my disciple thou wilt be,<div zid="154">take up thy cross and follow me:</div><div zid="155">The cross that was most odious,</div><div zid="156">is by my death made glorious.</div><div zid="157"><br /></div><div zid="159">AVE MARIA</div><div zid="160"><br /></div><div zid="162">With humble mind I take my way</div><div zid="163">unto the Blessed Virgin pure:</div><div zid="164">Upon my knees Ave to say,</div><div zid="165">that she may help my sins to cure.</div><div zid="166"><br /></div><div zid="168">GRATIA PLENA</div><div zid="169"><br /></div><div zid="171">O Marie meek hail full of grace</div><div zid="172"> Whom when Elizabeth did view</div><div zid="173">She said there was wither in place</div><div zid="174">the Mother of her Lord Iesu</div><div zid="175"><br /></div><div zid="177">DOMINVS TECVM</div><div zid="178"><br /></div><div zid="180">O Lady dear our Lord with thee,</div><div zid="181">whom shepherds first in manger find</div><div zid="182">A star from the east did guide king's three</div><div zid="183">to visit him, with devout mind.</div><div zid="184"><br /></div><div zid="186">BENEDICTA TV IN MVLIERIBVS</div><div zid="187"><br /></div><div zid="189">Among women thou blessed be,</div><div zid="190">who scathed the swords that infants slew:</div><div zid="191">Whiles Herod sought most cruelly,</div><div zid="192">with all to kill thy Son Iesu.</div><div zid="193"><br /></div><div zid="195">ET BENEDICTVS FRVCTVS VENTRIS TVI</div><div zid="196">The fruit of thy womb blessed be,</div><div zid="197">whom wrongfully to death they drew.</div><div zid="198">What greater cross could come to thee,</div><div zid="199">than this thou bear with Christ Iesu.</div><div zid="200"><br /></div><div zid="202">SANCTA MARIA ORA PRO NOBIS</div><div zid="203">O holy mother pray for me,</div><div zid="204">whose sins deserve eternal pain:</div><div zid="205">That after death my soul may be,</div><div zid="206">where my sweet Iesu now doeth reign.</div><div zid="207"><br /></div><div zid="209">Marie bear Christ at years fifteen.</div><div zid="210">he lived in earth three and thirty.</div><div zid="211">Fifteen years after was she seen.</div><div zid="212">Assumed to heaven at threescore three.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-47997028921945078072010-01-04T05:58:00.001-08:002010-01-04T05:58:50.159-08:00S. Augustine's admirable example of purity<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">S. Augustine being asked why he would not dwell with his sister, replied "because they are not my sisters that live with my sister." Without doubt it is evil to behold a woman, worse to speak to her, worst of all to touch her. Therefore Nicetius a very holy priest... very mindful of himself, was afraid to handle so much as the naked bodies of infants. For none he thought could be too wary in this respect, since pleasure is wont to insinuate itself so deceitfully.<br /><br /><a href="http://cathom.blogspot.com/2009/03/important-passages-from-nicetas-or.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 204); ">http://cathom.blogspot.com/2009/03/important-passages-from-nicetas-or.html</a><br /><br />S. Augustin himself (as Possidonius Bishop of Calame writeth of him) would not only not dwel in house with other women, or haue anie familiaritie with them: but not with his owne sister and brother's daughter; not so much in regard of themselues, as of other women that would be coming vnto them.<br /><br /><a href="http://platus.springnote.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 51, 204); ">http://platus.springnote.com/</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5338784975493398791.post-69137829570157087622009-12-25T12:39:00.000-08:002010-04-14T13:58:06.624-07:00St. Camillus's continual prayer...He spent the greater part of both day and night in prayer, in reading, and meditation; nor could all the works of piety and mercy in which he was daily engaged distract him from the consideration of any of the eternal truths.<div>...</div><div>It is impossible to say how a man with a wounded leg, and with callosities on his knees like sharp bones, could remain so long keeling without any support.</div><div>...</div><div>He often recommended his religious not to forget to pray for the benefactors of the order, living and dead, for the soul in purgatory, for those who were living in mortal sin, and principally for those who were in their agony. He said more than once that every one of our Fathers, without leaving his own room, might be present by prayer and recommended the soul of every person in the world who was in his agony.</div><div><br /></div><div>He was anxious that all his religious should be men of prayer, and wished that, whether they were at home, in the hospitals, or in the streets , their <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">thoughts should always be occupied with some devout subject.</span> He used to say, "Woe to that religious who is contented with his mornings' mental prayer, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">remains all the rest of the day with his mind distracted here and there</span>; such a one in the evening will find his hands full of flies and wind." Indeed, he wished that the body only should be occupied with external exercises, and that the soul should always, as far as possible, be kept united internally with God.</div><div><div>...</div><div>So great was his care not to offer the Holy Sacrifice with his conscience defiled with even the slightest defect, that once when he was saying Mass in the hospital of St. Spirito, in the presence of all the servants of the establishment, just before the consecration he remembered having rebuked a little too harshly a novice who was serving his Mass. He would not proceed without first turning and begging pardon, at the same time advising him not to communicate that day, for fear he might be a little ill-tempered.</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 25px; "><a href="http://www.strobertbellarmine.net/books/Ciccatelli-Faber%20--%20Camillus.pdf" style="color: rgb(85, 136, 170); text-decoration: none; ">The Life of St. Camillus of Lellis</a> by Father Sanzio Ciccatelli, trans. by Father Frederick Faber. pp. 293-301</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 25px; font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><div><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0